Dr. Kimberly Ma (Obstetrics and Gynecology; Assistant Chief Clinical Information Officer for UW Medicine) shares tips for organizing and customizing your EPIC inbox to save you time. Start by understanding how you use your inbox and your most commonly accessed features, then focus on optimizing those sections. Reduce time in EPIC by setting daily email reminders to notify you of messages. Set up the "results" section to prioritize the most relevant columns for your workflow, and edit out those you don't use. Get to know quick actions for your most frequent tasks without opening the patient chart. Finally, Dr. Ma highly encourages folks to schedule a 1:1 session with Practitioner Liaison Support (PLS) Services to optimize your personal EPIC inbox.

Contact Practitioner Liaison Support (PLS) Services to schedule a 1:1 session:

WEBSITE: Practitioner Liaison Support (uwmedicine.org)

TEAMS CHANNEL: Practitioner Support & Optimization Forum

REQUEST FORM FOR EPIC OPTIMIZATION SESSIONS: Follow this link

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Dr. Neha Deshpande (Medicine, General Internal Medicine) shares best practices for how to effectively teach in small group settings. She recommends setting the session up for success with enthusiasm, shared goals, and planned interactive components. She then provides examples of some of her favorite prompts and intentional strategies for elevating quieter voices, as well as approaches to avoid. Finally, Dr. Deshpande encourages increasing your confidence in small group teaching with continued practice and iteration.

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Drs. Mollie Grow (Pediatrics) and Stefan Wheat (Emergency Medicine) discuss how faculty can get involved in improving climate health. Climate change is the single greatest public health threat of the 21st century and US Healthcare accounts for 8.5% of total US greenhouse gas emissions. The UW School of Medicine offers collaborative opportunities from medical student-led curriculum changes to an annual multi-disciplinary symposium. In every day practice, we can replace single-use PPE with reusable PPE, reduce single-use plastic at events involving food, and reduce use of anesthetic gasses in clinical spaces. Planetary health is human health, and we can all make changes and get involved to reduce our impact.

Below is a list of resources to join in this work.

Links to get involved:
UW Sustainability Action Plan
UW Center for Health and the Global Environment
Funded Climate and Health Research opportunity for WWAMI researchers
Green Seattle
Journal of Graduate Medical Education's Climate Change and GME supplement
Climate Solutions
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
Climate Change and Health Bootcamp
Climate Rx

Email Stefan at wheati2@uw.edu and Mollie at HMollie.Grow@seattlechildrens.org for additional opportunities and information.

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Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com/)